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June 20, 2009
Kiel, Germany
Today was the first day of
racing at the Kiel Week , the sixth leg of the ISAF World Cup Series.
And what a day it was!! I finished the day with a 9, 2 in the
two races and am overall quite happy with the results. We are
sailing in two fleets, 75 boats total. I was in the yellow group today and
we got in two races, and the blue fleet only got in one race.
Training Day Photo: Luther Carpenter
The day was heavily influenced
by the clouds, the cliffs, and the rain squalls that rolled through the
course. The first race was setting up with pressure left, and not
much but a big cloud on the right hand side of the course. I had
a great start and headed out left. I got the left shift and tacked
over, only to look under my boom and see three-quarters of the fleet
on the right hand side pointing almost in the same direction as me on
the opposite tack…not good for me. I rounded at the top mark
in the mid-20’s but battled back to finish 9th. The second race was much better. I got a great start off the line, tacked on the first shift and was sailing in the pressure. I made one little mistake up the first beat when a puff hit me which was initially a knock, but came back as a lift half way through my tack. But again, I sailed the top of the beat well and rounded second and held onto it for the rest of the race. We have one more day of split fleet racing (assuming we can get four races total) before we split into the gold and silver fleets. You can see the results here. I will have another report tomorrow. The forecast for tomorrow is for less breeze so hopefully we will get in the required races.
I would like to thank Carmeuse
for their continued support of my campaign towards the 2012 Olympics
in London, as well as US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics.
Sail Hard, Anna |
Team Member
Representing the USA, Anna Tunnicliffe won the Gold Medal in the Women's Laser Radial dinghy at the 2008 Olympic Games in Qingdao, China. Anna was the ISAF world's Number One-ranked women's Radial sailor from April 9, 2008 to May 2010. She was voted 2009 & 2011 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year. Now Anna, skipper of Team Maclaren, has teamed up with Molly O'Bryan Vandemoer and Debbie Capozzi to take on the world and go for Gold in 2012 London Olympic Games in Women's Match Racing and the team is currently ranked #1 in the ISAF WMR rankings.
